Powerline networking: full duplex? half duplex?

[venm11]

I've been considering powerline networking for my home, because of certain difficulties pulling cables in one area. Wifi is saturated here in the city.

My first question is - how do I interpret the speed ratings? If the device is 500mbit, does that mean it's split 250mbs upstream and downstream, or can either direction utilize the full 500mbit?

My 2nd question - will a 500mbit device perform better than a 50mbit device in the presence of interference? I know these do drop to a fraction of their optimal bitrate when there's problems on the line. But is 500mbit 10x better than 50mbit in that case?

 

[venm11]

bump?

 

[Exavior]

not really sure, never used the devices so don't know if that is supposed to be full duplex or not. I do know from what I have ever read and heard you will not get full utilization. So no, it won't be 10x faster than a 50Mbps link, but should be at least 4 - 5x time faster at least in some cases. Depending on how the house is ran you could have almost worthless speeds. These devices can be impacted by a lot of different things.